Monday, 4 June 2018

What makes a halo around the sun or moon?...... Part II



Halo around the sun, seen from Sweden on April 24, 2014, and captured by Fotograf Goran Strand.


Moon halo captured by Aaron Robinson in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on January 30, 2015.

            Abhinav Singhai captured this sun halo above wheat fields in November, 2014.

Jean Marie Andre Delaporte captured this image of a halo around the sun in Normandy, France, in April, 2014.
Solar halo seen May 14, 2013, in Monmouth, New Jersdy, as captured by EarthSky Facebook friend Stacey Baker-Bruno. 

Halos around the sun or moon are caused by high, thin cirrus clouds drifting high above your head. Tiny ice crystals in Earth’s atmosphere create the halos. They do it by refracting and reflecting the light. Lunar halos are signs that storms are nearby.

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